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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy

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June 21, 2013 11:51 AM

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From www.thenextweb.com - June 21, 2013 11:51 AM

Robin Good's insight:

If you want to learn how to become the "go-to person" in your specific niche or industry sector, by curating the best content available out there, I am offering, in partnership with the Next Web Academy, an online master class in "Content Curation" on Monday July 8th at 7pm GMT / 2pm ET / 11am PT.

In this 2-hour online live session you will see exactly the tools and the methods for finding and organizing your ideal content sources, where to discover new ones daily, and the specific steps you should follow to properly edit, enrich and contextualize relevant content resources for your audience.

Speicifc topics covered in this course:

Curation objectives
Key benefits
Curation types
News and Content Curation Tools
Content Curation workflow
Titling curated content
References and related resources
Credit and attribution
Distribution approach
Business models - monetization examples
Future trends

http://www.thenextweb.com/academy/

Additional info:

-> At the end of the session there will be a live Q&A session in which you will be able to ask me specific questions.

-> Participants to this course will also get a special bonus to freely access the Pro versions of a few personally selected outstanding content curation tools. (Stay tuned for more info on this front).

-> Though the official page says for "beginners" this is really an "intermediate" course for those who already know the basics and want to step up one level above everyone else.

-> Cost of the online master class is $99

(To attend you need only a standard PC or Mac and an Internet connection.)

You can find more info and the sign-up link here: http://www.thenextweb.com/academy/

Please pass this news to your contacts who may be interested in this one-time opportunity. Thank you.

Robin Good's comment, July 6, 2013 4:18 PM

Thanks a lot Ken, very much appreciated indeed. :-)

Robin Good's comment, July 6, 2013 4:18 PM

Thank you Dennis T., you are too kind.

John Poole's curator insight, July 30, 2013 11:57 AM

Rich source of intelligence on curation

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July 1, 2013 7:14 AM

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From www.youtube.com - July 1, 2013 7:14 AM

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Memit is a content curation app that allows you to clip any web page (as is) text, image or video available online and to save it inside a collection.

Collections can be set to be private or public, and you can invite as many other people as you want to collaborate and contribute to it.

Individual items clipped can be commented, tagged and can be shared on your preferred social media channels. You can follow other Memit users and see their stream of clipped items just like similar tools do.

Each user gets a Profile Page showcasing his work and publicly saved items.

My comments: Good flexible clipper allows easy grabbing of what you are interested in and easy storing into your categories and tags. Good actegorization functions. Good for collaborative use around the collection of texts, excerpts or video clips. Not so great at collection display (only a linear, vertical list format is avaiable for now), publishing or exporting (no embed feature).

P.S.: If you have backed up your Clipboard.com collections, you can import them directly into Memit.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://memit.com/

Video tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/runealblas/videos

iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/app/memit/id542209884

Similar tools: Clipular, Iceber.gs, Keeeb

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 1, 2013 2:13 PM

Robin Good assesses pros and cons of Memit, a new content clipping and saving tool.

Patricia Stitson's curator insight, July 1, 2013 4:13 PM

Interesting tool!

Jose Jordan's curator insight, July 2, 2013 1:38 PM

Memit es una aplicación de curaduría de contenidos que te permite recortar cualquier página web (tal cual) de texto, imagen o video disponible en línea y guardar dentro de una colección.

Las colecciones pueden configurarse para que sean privados o públicos, y usted puede invitar a todos los demás como quieres colaborar y contribuir a ella.

Los elementos individuales recortadas pueden ser comentados, etiquetados y se pueden compartir en sus canales de medios sociales preferidas. Puedes seguir a otros usuarios Memit y ver su flujo de artículos recortado igual que otras herramientas similares hacen.

Cada usuario tiene una página de perfil mostrando su trabajo y los elementos guardados en bolsa.

Mis comentarios: Buen clipper flexible, permite un fácil recorte de lo que le interesa y fácil de almacenar en sus categorías y etiquetas. Buenas funciones categorizacion.Bueno para el uso de entorno de colaboración para colección de textos, extractos o clips de vídeo.La pantalla de colección no es muy grande (sólo un formato de lista lineal, vertical disponible por el momento), la edición o exportación (sin función de inserción).

PS: Si usted ha realizado una copia de seguridad de sus colecciones Clipboard.com, puede importarlos directamente en Memit.

De uso libre.

Pruébelo ahora: http://memit.com/

Tutoriales de vídeo:http://www.youtube.com/user/runealblas/videos

iPhone App:http://itunes.apple.com/app/memit/id542209884

Similar tools: Clipular, Iceber.gs, Keeeb

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June 28, 2013 7:04 PM

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From twtrland.com - June 28, 2013 7:04 PM

Robin Good's insight:

If you are looking for an effective tool to identify Twitter influencers in specific niches and regions of the world, here is a super handy new tool.

Twtrland is a new web app which allows you to easily find key influencers on many niche topics including the ability to identify those influencers based in specific geographic regions.

Try searching for a specific Twitter user by name and last name and check out the thorough profile that Twtrland builds for you. Very useful. Then try a city and drill down to find who are the influencers by using the filters on the left side. Finally try to search for one of the 60K skills already covered (too bad "Content Curation" isn't there yet).

From the official site: "Twtrland. It allows you to search Twitter by names, location and skills and surfaces a wide variety of insights, stats and useful pointers. It’s especially useful if you’re researching specialists (by country/location) as well as checking someone out (beyond the usual LinkedIn search)."

Free version available.

The PRO version allows for more search results, filters, the ability to collect profiles into separate folders, to export them, and to analyze fully the stats of any brand, keyword or user for $19.99.

My comment: Hard to beat. Great research tool allows you to rapidly find relevant influencers in a growing number of verticals. Easy to use. Very useful.

Try it out now: http://twtrland.com/

FAQ: http://twtrland.com/about.php?s=FAQ

Similar tools: http://GetLittleBird.com

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 1, 2013 2:17 PM

Anyone looking to develop an influencer marketing strategy will find Twtrland very helpful and very inexpensive. Robin good provides his assessment.

Elia Morling's comment, July 1, 2013 5:20 PM

Thanks Robin, this is actually one of the better tools I have tested in this nische

Robin Good's comment, July 1, 2013 5:24 PM

Good Elia, I am glad you find it useful.

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June 26, 2013 7:51 AM

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From ijdc.net - June 26, 2013 7:51 AM

Robin Good's insight:

In this white paper authored by Jeonghyun Kim, Edward Warga, William Moen and entitled "Competencies Required for Digital Curation: An Analysis of Job Advertisements", the authors review a total of 173 job advertisements posted between October 2011 and April 2012 were collected from various sources to take into account varying types of professionals in the field of digital curation across North America.

"Position title, institution types and location, educational background, experience, knowledge and skills, and duties were examined and analyzed. The results of the analysis show that digital curation jobs are characterized by a complex interplay of various skills and knowledge."

The authors also identified their first version of a set of iCAMP competencies, defined as: knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes to carry out a wide range of professional functions in support of digital curation responsibilities.

These skills and competencies for digital curators include seven areas:

1) Communication and interpersonal competency: This competency is required for clear and effective communication with a variety of audiences, including users, creators, managers, researchers and collaborators.

2) Curating and preserving content competency: This competency is required to understand and carry out a range of activities as defined in the digital curation lifecycle model, including the creation, acquisition, management, representation, access, organization, transformation and preservation of digital content.

3) Curation technologies competency: This competency is required to identify, use, and develop tools and applications to support digital curation activities. The context of this competency is the information technology infrastructure, including the tools and applications deployed to support digital curation.

4) Environmental scanning competency: This competency is required to identify and use resources to stay current and on the leading edge regarding trends, technologies and practices that affect professional work and capabilities within the field of digital curation.

5) Management, planning and evaluation competency: This competency is required for planning, coordinating, implementing, and assessing programs, projects and services related to digital curation.

6) Services competency: This competency is required to identify, understand and build services to respond to a community’s and/or institution’s digital curation needs.

7) Systems, models and modeling competency: This competency is required for high-level, abstract thinking about and critical analysis of complex systems, workflows and conceptual models related to digital curation.

Very useful. 8/10

Full PDF: http://ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/8.1.66/317

The International Journal of Digital Curation. ISSN: 1746-8256

(Thanks to the University of North Texas and to UKOLN at the University of Bath for their contribution.)

Kathy E Gill's curator insight, July 11, 2013 4:46 AM

In addition to classroom, we have to think about after the classroom. That is, employment.

Francois Adoue for Guimel 's curator insight, August 14, 2013 9:15 AM

Which competences are required for a content curator ? Curation is one of the most growing tasks for Internet jobs ! The International Observatory for Internet Jobs www.e-jobs-observatory.eu will publish in few days the role profile for e-Tourism Internet Curator. this profile (and 4 other e-Tourism jobs roles will be evaluated before publication. If you want to give your feed back on these jobs, please contact me !

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June 23, 2013 5:35 AM

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From www.getmespark.com - June 23, 2013 5:35 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Elizabeth Weaver Engel and Jeff De Cagna are the authors of a small but very useful guide to Content Curation originally written for membership groups, and first published in November 2012.

The guide offers a good introduction to why content curation is so important, how it can help any organization and what are the key things to know about it for anyone who knows little or nothing about it.

From the original PDF guide, entitled "Attention Doesn't Scale: The Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations":

"Content curation provides a potential path to a new type of thought leadership, one that is more suited to a world where information is no longer the scarce resource. Focus is. Meaning is. Wisdom is.

But that type of support will require a signicant shift in our business models.

For decades, associations have been in the business of generating information.

Our challenge now is to transform ourselves into being in the business of sense-making, helping members distinguish what new information is most relevant and integrate that information into their mental categories, and meaning-making, helping them understand the implications of that new information for their worldviews."

Lots of good tips, references and relevant resources listed. Provides good foundational reference for any serious business reader.

Good intro to content curation. Resourceful. Informative. 8/10

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Attention Doesn't Scale (PDF) - http://www.getmespark.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AttentionDoesntScale-Whitepaper-Nov2012.pdf

(9 pages)

YouTube video: http://youtu.be/IWbFI_ny9fY
(The Role of Content Curation in Associations:
Interview With Elizabeth Engel) by Brian Kelly of AssociationMaves.com

(23':41")

Stephen Dale's curator insight, June 26, 2013 7:26 AM

With almost anyone now able to generate and publish content, finding relevance (signal to noise) is precoccupying knowledge workers everywhere. Sense-making, new media literacy and the ability to understand concepts across a wide range of disciplines are ctitical skills for the content curator in cutting through the noise to find that all important signal. Effective content curation will help us to focus and make sense of our complex and ambiguous world, to understand context and ultimately to make better decisons.

Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight, July 5, 2013 5:24 PM

Good stuff on the last page about essential job skills and curation skills.

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June 20, 2013 11:24 AM

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From vimeo.com - June 20, 2013 11:24 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Iceber.gs is a web app which allows you to easily clip any text, image, video clip or entire web page and to store into a dedicated private visual collection by simply clicking a button.

Iceber.gs unlike Pinterest allows to clip not just images present on a web page, but allows to select specific text passages, to capture video clips and to save entire web pages from top to bottom. You can also upload multimedia files directly from your computer by simply dragging and dropping them in your favorite collection.

Iceber.gs collections are meant to be created for private use, and are not indexed by major search engines. Its main applications are in situations where you work in a team in which you need to share relevant research stuff, or when dealing with a client to whom you need to show drafts and layout examples.

An extension to capture new content is available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari: https://iceber.gs/iceframedownload/index.html

My comment: Useful alternative to the many visual curation boards out there for those in need specifically a "private", not publicly shared solution.

Free to use.

Try it out now: https://iceber.gs/

(Thanks to Francesco Guglielmino for first discovering it)

Olga Boldina's curator insight, June 21, 2013 1:34 AM

Обязательно попробовать!!!!!!!

Nick Mortel's curator insight, June 21, 2013 7:32 AM

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Krysta Hammond's curator insight, June 21, 2013 10:59 AM

I like this chrome extension. A neat new way to curate and integrate into your main page. Interesting way to showcase a team project to showcase information back and forth. We tried this for one of our group projects as an assignment.

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June 18, 2013 10:35 AM

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From www.bundlepost.com - June 18, 2013 10:35 AM

Robin Good's insight:

BundlePost is a social curation web app which allows you to easily find relevant posts on the topics of your interest and to auto-schedule their republication on your preferred social media channel with your custom hashtags and Twitter names.

The service has been out there for over a year, but it has recently updated its website and service features.

BundlePost taps into your selected set of RSS feeds and Google Alerts (not for much longer) and aggregates relevant posts according to your theme and keyword specifications so that you can review, edit and modify those that you want to get published.

Scheduling and distribution features allow you to set exactly where and when you want each piece of content to be published.

BundlePost integrates perfectly with HootSuite, allowing you to upload days of ready-to-go scheduled content for any social network in minutes, and with its hashtag system is capable of creating folders for each of your campaigns, clients or accounts that coincide with a specific topic.

"Within each folder you designate the keywords and phrases that you know will be found in the text of the content curated by Bundle Post, as well as what hashtags you want the system to replace them with. You can also identify any words or phrases that will be contained in the text of posts and have Bundle Post automatically replace them with a specific twitter name, making it an active link when posted."

My comment: The perfect tool for social media and content marketers looking for the easiest way to post relevant content to their social media channels automatically and over time. If you are ready for a pretty "Spartan" interface but have a strong need to automate your social publishing needs, this solution may be worth checking out. Outside of my personal doubts on the effectiveness of this approach, the tool delivers tremendous time saving features for those looking exactly for this. You ca have automate FollowFridays. If instead you wonder from were all this extra information noise in your Twitter and social media accounts comes from, you now have another possible suspect.

Free 30-day trial available (no credit card required).

More info: http://www.bundlepost.com/

How it works: http://www.bundlepost.com/tour

Pricing: http://www.bundlepost.com/pricing

Nick Mortel's curator insight, June 21, 2013 7:32 AM

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June 16, 2013 1:47 PM

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From stuntandgimmicks.com - June 16, 2013 1:47 PM

Robin Good's insight:

I share a lot of feelings and views with Lauren Fairbanks though I do not see things exactly the same way she does. But then again she is a content marketing specialist and I am an explorer of how curation can help us beyond business goals.

I can't but agree and applaude her when she writes: "...big issue that mass curation creates is a problem that Doug Kessler of UK content marketing firm, Velocity Partners, calls “the deluge of content marketing“.

This means that companies and individuals who create half-assed content (think: rehashing old news or someone else’s original idea just to have something to post) create a mass of garbage online that’s more difficult for potential customers and clients to sift through to find information that’s actually going to be useful for them."

Likewise when she advises to pay more attention to what is being curated: "... there aren’t any software solutions that I’ve seen that actually do a smart job of curating content.

Yeah, you can pull in a bunch of content that revolves around a certain keyword ... but curating content in a smart way that will actually help drive your business goals takes putting in actual time and effort to find really great, really useful content..."

And when she begs brands and self-proclaimed curators to stop to simply copy and paste pieces of content from other magazine articles while not adding anything of their own: "Copying and pasting from multiple articles isn’t going to help you create useful content that’s going to help build your brand or sell your services.

Neither is trying to automate the content curation process so that you take all of the work out.

You get what you put in, and if you’re not willing to invest time and money into curating the right way, you shouldn’t expect to see a positive ROI from it."

Problem is, as I see it, that they might get back for a while a lot more than what they invested for, simply because there are still to many people unable to appreciate or distinguish rehashing, copying and pasting and simple republishing from true curation. But we will get there, as the taste of true lemons, isn't the one of limes.

Rightful. Provocative. 8/10

Full article: http://stuntandgimmicks.com/blog/what-is-content-curation/

(Image credit: dog covering both ears - Shutterstock)

GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC's curator insight, June 17, 2013 5:52 AM

GIBS IC - serving current awareness

XYEYE's comment, June 17, 2013 10:32 AM

My favorite in the promotional materials that are being touted as as content but really is just multiple page pdf's of utter bull sales marketing of them selling something! Talk about useless garbage clogging the airways!

XYEYE's comment, June 17, 2013 11:34 AM

you know exactly what I am saying Elisa!

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June 15, 2013 1:36 PM

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From pinterest.com - June 15, 2013 1:36 PM

Robin Good's insight:

If you look at the industry in which content curation tools and services have had the most leeway so far, that would be positively fashion, and, in my impression, by a good margin over the rapidly growing education/learning sector.

The fashion industry has embraced digital curation wholeheartedly more than any other sector so far, because of its strong visual element (the same one that has popularized the curation concept thanks to tools like Pinterest), and thanks to the natural inclination that fashion customers have for picking, collecting and sharing their unique preferences and combinations.

In this visual collection I have brought together the most interesting examples of curation at work in the world of fashion. Tools, services, communities, brands and products, all working together to filter, aggregate, pick and create relevant "selections" for the infinite number of tribes out there.

Curation Tools for Fashion: http://pinterest.com/robingood/curation-tools-for-fashion/

Enjoy, share, suggest new relevant ones to add.

Style Mint LLC's curator insight, June 17, 2013 10:54 PM

This is a great link to find everything you need to dress your best.

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June 14, 2013 10:31 AM

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From www.opentopic.com - June 14, 2013 10:31 AM

Robin Good's insight:

OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine.

Within OpenTopic you can create one or more "Topic" dashboards. These are essentially display pages that aggregate incoming fresh content from the sources you specify. You can jump from one Topic dashboard to the next at the click of your mouse.

To curate stories you simpy select the ones that are relevant to your audience and you are provided with an editing module to modify and personalize the story content. At this point you can also select on which one of your outlets (Channels) that story will be published and you can customize the story differently for each one of them.

There is even an option that allows you to set-up some form of automated curation, by giving you the option to set up a set of simple rules, which when match, will trigger the publishing of a news story.

OpenTopic allows you to hook up to an extended number of possible Channels, making it easy for you to post from one location to your web site, RSS feed, social media and newsletter.

Last but not least, OpenTopic integrates a full analytics service, capable of reporting and showcasing the performance of your curation work across stories and distribution channels.

My comment: Excellent tool for social media and community managers, as well as web marketing specialists in need to support effectively the finding of relevant news on a topic and the easy publishing to different channels from a centralized platform. Easy to use.

Request an invite here: http://www.opentopic.com/

Josette Williams's comment, June 21, 2013 3:27 PM

Thanks Robin, I love this!

Jose Jordan's curator insight, June 28, 2013 1:48 PM

OpenTopic es un servicio de curación de noticias que te permite agregar, monitorizar y filtrar cualquier número de fuentes para publicar y compartir tu selección en los sitios que prefieras desde WordPress, canales de Social Media o boletín electrónico.

Dentro de OpenTopic puedes crear uno o más cuadros de mando "Topic". esencialmente muestra las páginas que donde se agregan nuevos contenidos y el contenido entrante de las fuentes que se especifiquen. Puedes saltar de un panel a otro topic con el clic de su ratón.

Para curar historias simplemente tienes que seleccionar los que son relevantes para tu público y se les proporciona un módulo de edición para modificar y personalizar el contenido de la historia. En este punto también se puede seleccionar en los (canales) que la historia será publicada y se puede personalizar la historia de manera diferente para cada uno de ellos.

Incluso hay una opción que te permite configurar algún tipo de curación automática, dándole la opción de establecer un conjunto de reglas sencillas, que cuando coincide, dará lugar a la publicación de una noticia.

OpenTopic te permite conectar a un mayor número de canales posibles, por lo que es fácil enviar de un lugar a tu sitio web, RSS, redes sociales y newsletter.

Por último, pero no menos importante, OpenTopic integra un servicio de análisis completo, capaz de informar y dar a conocer los resultados de su trabajo de curación a través de historias y canales de distribución.

Mi comentario: Excelente herramienta para redes sociales y community managers, así como especialistas de marketing web que necesitan el soporte eficaz para descubrir noticias relevantes sobre un tema y la publicación fácil de diferentes canales de una plataforma centralizada. Fácil de usar.

Solicitar una invitación aquí:http://www.opentopic.com/

Ness Crouch's curator insight, July 4, 2013 5:36 PM

I'm going to try this out! I could have everything in one place! I'm not sure if it will be as effective as my other tools but I'm willing to experiment.

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From blogs.kqed.org - June 13, 2013 12:13 PM

Robin Good's insight:

From the original article by Justin Reich and Beth Holland on MindShift: "What would a math class look like where students learn to compute, prove, derive, and intuit, as well as to discern and appreciate mathematical beauty?

What about a history class where students maintained a portfolio of beautiful artifacts and ideas from multiple periods?

How might efforts to curate benefit from the portability and ubiquity of mobile devices?

What would a “relevance portfolio” look like, where students catalog their daily encounters with ideas or experiences? What other kinds of portfolios could students create over the course of their academic career?"

If you are curious to get a glimpse at how tablets and their apps can be utilized to leverage curation for your classroom learning objectives, then this is definitely a good read.

You get a good introduction with some interesting historical facts about curation and about what it could be done with it in the real of education, and then you are provided with a good number of examples and tools that you can start to use right away.

Informative. Resourceful. 8/10

Full article: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/to-get-the-best-out-of-tablets-for-education-classrooms-use-smart-curation/

Raquel Oliveira's curator insight, June 18, 2013 9:16 PM

Useful tips !

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June 12, 2013 5:59 AM

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From www.youtube.com - June 12, 2013 5:59 AM

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Clipular is Chrome browser extension and web app which is capable of capturing any text, web page, image, video, diagram or any other content you can see on a web page, wile indexing the text it contains and letting you organize it into public/private collections.

The Clipular capturing tool can capture full web pages, or any portion that you specify.

Captured content can be tagged (assigned to one or more categories), commented and easily shared on your preferred social media channels.

Clipular "boards" (collections) can be set to be private or can be publicly shared.

There is an import function to bring in your existing Clipboard.com collections. (Unfortunately, the display of web pages imported in this fashion is quite disappointing as they are forced to appear - even when clicked on - at a thumbnail size).

A unique organizational feature called "Group" lets you easily grab items from your dashboard and throw them easily into a new or existing collection.

A collection can be published / displayed in one of four different modes:

a) Magazine

b) Poster

c) Story

d) Pattern

My comment: This is an excellent content capturing and organization tool, meant for internal work and not for publishing collections to the public (at least for now). The capturing tool is extremely effective, and the organizational features also work very well. The display, in the main dashboard and the four display modes do have some margin of improvement. Good alternative to Pinterest when you need not so much to collect images, but rather web pages, text excerpts, video collections or other materials.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.clipular.com

Chrome extension (inndispensable): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipular-reinvent-screen/cjbjepchlgclmpinlbbeinajphohgfod

Ernesto Alegre's curator insight, June 14, 2013 5:32 AM

La evolución del bookmarklet en extensión de browser más robusta, dentro de un concepto de curación visual de contenido.

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June 6, 2013 2:33 PM

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From www.talkwalker.com - June 6, 2013 2:33 PM

Robin Good's insight:

If your Google Alerts is not working as it used to be and you are getting only a notification every once in a while, you not alone. In fact rumours say that Google Alerts may be dismissed soon and that its service is not actively maintained since quite a while.

Enter TalkWalker Alerts, a Google Alerts clone that replicates almost faithfully the Google tool original layout, UI and features.

If you are not familiar with this kind of tool, its key purpose is one of actively and persistently search for a set of keywords you specify and to report to you, via RSS/email of any instances of new content mentioning your selected keywords.

You can specify within what type of content these keywords need to be found (discussions, news, blogs, everything), in which language sites they appear, and how often and how many of the results found should be sent to you.

If you have used Google Alerts you will find yourself at home instantly, with the added ability to import your old set of alerts from Google. (Just login in your Google Alerts account, click on Export under your list of alerts, and then when you are in TalkWalkerAlerts click on Import. Voilà all your Google Alerts now work also here.)

As in Google you get both a RSS feed for each query / alert, as well as the possibility to receive email alerts as things happen or in a daily or weekly digest.

This is an excellent replacement for Google Alerts. Easy. Intuitive. Essential.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.talkwalker.com/alerts

trendspotter's comment, June 19, 2013 7:23 AM

They also use this domain and name: https://en.mention.net/

Robin Good's comment, June 19, 2013 9:29 AM

No way. Mention is a great tool, and even better in some aspects, but it stops at 500 mentions of whatever you put it to search unless you pony up 19.99$/month.

trendspotter's comment, June 20, 2013 9:27 AM

Ok, I didn't reach that limit so far. Thanks for the info, Robin.

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June 26, 2013 10:50 AM

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From www.thenextweb.com - June 26, 2013 10:50 AM

Robin Good's insight:

If you are the owner, CEO or marketing director of a content curation tool, service or app, listen up.

On July 8th I will deliver a Content Curation Master Class via the TheNextWeb Academy. This will be a two-hour live seminar in which I will illustrate the principles, workflow and the tools required to become effective online content curators.

The class will be attended by individuals and organizations interested in mastering the techniques and principles characterizing quality content curation online.

While I will showcase a few pre-selected content curation tools in different application areas, I would like to offer the opportunity to participants to test also some of the other good curation technologies available out there.

If you are open to offer a free coupon to let the participants of this Master Class access the PRO version of your tool for a limited time, please contact me ASAP as I have only a few slots left.

email: Robin.Good@masternewmedia.org

More info: http://www.thenextweb.com/academy/

jaynalocke's comment, June 26, 2013 1:45 PM

Your content curation class sounds interesting, Robin. The class description says "Beginner." I am wondering if you will offer one for people who want to graduate beyond the beginner stage.

Robin Good's comment, June 26, 2013 2:05 PM

Jayna, your damn right. I should have labelled it Intermediate, because the course is really for all those who want to grduate beyond the beginner stage.

jaynalocke's comment, June 26, 2013 2:43 PM

Fabulous. Thanks Robin!

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June 29, 2013 5:30 PM

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From www.noowit.com - June 29, 2013 5:30 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Noowit is a new curation and publishing platform that allows you to do on the web something very similar to what Flipboard allows you to do with your smartphone or tablet. You can curate a beautiful-looking web magazine, by selecting content from its internal news discovery engine or by clipping any content you find on the web with the dedicated NOOWIT bookmarklet.

On the backend you can select individual topics, authors and specific sources you want to subscribe to, to keep yourself informed. You can provide specific RSS feeds or import your collection of RSS subscriptions.

You can create multiple content sections inside a magazine and when you add new content you can easily decide in which section it is going to end up.

A swift navigation scheme provides almost seamless integration between the excerpted content that appears in the magazine and the full, original resource that you can navigate to without losing touch with the rest of the magazine.

NOOWIT magazines can be set to be public or private and they can be viewed across devices and screen of all sizes.

Like on Flipboard it is not possible to edit, modify or add to content that you pick and select to be added to your magazines.

My comment: NOOWIT easily creates great-looking digital magazines of your selected articles and resources. It is a great tool for anyone wanting to create easily a "splashy" curated digital magazine that looks great across devices with the minimum effort possible.

Private beta: http://www.noowit.com/

Preview: http://www.noowit.com/pbeta

Example I created: http://www.noowit.com/RobinGood

Robin Martin's curator insight, July 2, 2013 9:03 PM

Thanks Robin for sharing this! Will definitely have to check this out.

Josette Williams's curator insight, July 5, 2013 4:59 PM

This is the best innovative curation tool for creating your magazine for the web. Check out NOOWIT. Thanks Robin Good!

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June 26, 2013 5:12 PM

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From blog.intelligistgroup.com - June 26, 2013 5:12 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Thanks to Alan Berkson intelligent use of hashtags as he retweeted his own post dating back to December 2012, and to Trendspottr, who made it easy for me to discover it, I have just run into one of the most inspirational short posts about curation that I have read in some time.

The post is quite short, but it packs such an important truth, that I can't but bring it to you in its full integrity.

"Being able to properly vet might be the most important skill of the 21st Century.

Not curing sick animals.

Not retiring from military service.

I’m talking about “subjecting to thorough examination or evaluation.”

We’ve been trained to rely on experts to do this for us.

If we go back 30 years or so, we would find experts in a limited number of places: academia, government and non-government organizations, and major corporations including media. As I wrote in The Age of Thought Leadership:

“…the Information Age is allowing experts to step out from behind the veil of a corporate (or academic) entity…”

This is a double-edged sword. As individuals we can develop and express thought leadership. However, also as individuals, we can no longer solely rely on third parties for pre-vetting our experts.

Learn how to do research.
Know the difference between a primary and a secondary source.
Become more discerning in your content consumption.
Develop a healthy level of skepticism."

Content curation, if intended as the art of helping other people discover, learn and make sense of things they are interested into, is all about cultivating your own ability to become an expert by honing the skills of research, vetting and contextualization.

This is it. Must read. Must share. 10/10

Original post by Alan Berkson: http://blog.intelligistgroup.com/that-third-kind-of-vet/

Gust MEES's curator insight, June 26, 2013 5:19 PM

What should I say more? It's exactly that!

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?q=PLN

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June 24, 2013 5:02 PM

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From vimeo.com - June 24, 2013 5:02 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Editorialist is a "concept app" by Sara Uhelski and Alexander Norling which would allow you to easily curate and put together your own personalized magazine created by pulling together all of your favorite articles from all of the Condé Nast library of magazines.

The concept would even be more far reaching if subscribers could create curated thematic versions, the best of which could be made available to all other subscribers in a thematic directory.

Source: thenyegotist.com/news/local/2013/april/15/editorialist

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June 21, 2013 4:07 AM

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From www.socialmediaexaminer.com - June 21, 2013 4:07 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Ian Cleary on Social Media Examiner has published a useful guide on how to use Feedly, Newsle and Scoop.it to find and discover great relevant content to curate and share with your industry readers.

The guide has been written for the content marketing type, looking specifically for solutions that allow to find interesting content more easily and to spend less time doing this.

Useful. Pragmatical. Broadly illustrated. 8/10

Full guide: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/3-tools-to-find-great-content-to-share/

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 1, 2013 2:25 PM

Tools highlighted include Scoop.it, Newsle and Feedly.

AraujoFredy's curator insight, July 2, 2013 10:32 AM

Cómo encontrar contenido relevante para su audiencia de nichoDesde www.socialmediaexaminer.com - 1 de julio de 13:55

Curaduría de contenidos: herramientas para ayudarle a encontrar y compartir un gran contenido de otras personas junto con su propio contenido.

Stephen Zimmett's curator insight, September 7, 2014 12:16 AM

Some good informaion

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June 19, 2013 10:44 AM

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From www.techrepublic.com - June 19, 2013 10:44 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Takeaway: Planning ahead makes social media management so much easier. A simple way to keep you on track is to develop a content and curation calendar for your social posts.

From the original article by Nicole Bremer Nash on TechRepublic:

"Debate abounds over how much time a social media manager should spend each day on social networks and content.

The issue isn’t so much a matter of drive as it is that the Internet is one big rabbit hole of information.

Even if you stay focused on things related to work, you can find yourself losing valuable time in the course of managing your online content."

If you use content curation as a content marketing strategy, learning how to work with a editorial calendar is certainly useful. In tis way you rely less on the spur and impulse of the moment and more of what is really needed by your audience, while seeing clearly the forest from the trees.

Useful. 7/10

Full article: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/social-media-in-the-enterprise/create-a-social-media-content-posting-and-curation-calendar/503

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June 17, 2013 1:14 PM

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From www.videry.me - June 17, 2013 1:14 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Videry is a great example of video curation at work.

Videry is a hand-curated collection of over 30 great video clips for web designers.

The beauty and value of this collection, in the context of curation is in the following:

The quality of the clips selected
A clean, and simple layout - content over looks
The essence is in the selection made and that's why it needs to stand out.
The essential info is upfront - video thumbnails + title + description
no other distractions.
A Pinterest-like simmetrical visual layout that allows easy scanning of the page

Where it could do better:

Titles: no personalization for context - titles in the collection are exactly as the originals - the curator here could have improved and contextuaized titles for this collection, while keeping a good reference, visible to everyone, of the original one.
Descriptions: these are the original video descriptions. No additions, no opinion, no contextualization. The curator could have written his own descriptions from these in the context of this collection, while leaving the original descriptions as an extra option (since they are all already accessible under the original video location).
No visibile authorship for the collection.

P.S.: I think this clean design used in this collection is so effective that I wish there was a service prividing the ability to create curated video collections with such information design elegance.

(Anyone know who is behind Videry.me?)

Free to see.

Check it out now: http://www.videry.me/index.php

Facebook stream: https://www.facebook.com/videry.me

Google+ stream: https://plus.google.com/106097967197719138860/posts

Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight, June 18, 2013 6:16 AM

This is a cool new tool for "video curation".

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June 16, 2013 3:04 AM

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From www.listal.com - June 16, 2013 3:04 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Listal is a free web service and a vibrant community of movies and book lovers, who are provided with the tools to collect, rate and comment their favorite films and readings.

Key features include:

Rate items and add reviews, tags, images, videos & lists
Create as many collections as you like
Search and find titles by author,
Find people who share your tastes on the basis of your ratings
Generate charts based on the ratings of the people you follow
Organise your Movie/TV, Music, Game or Book collections
Customize your profile
RSS feeds for lists
Create drag and drop reorderable lists
Annotate your lists with notes and images
Import and export list data
Track loaned items
Create flash widgets for your lists and collections
Private message other Listal members
Discussion forums
View statistics about your collections

My comment: Excellent free tool to curate your favorite videos, films, books, music or electronic games. Recommended for anyone serious about creating and sharing this type of information.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.listal.com/

Zorka Kovacevich Marketing's curator insight, June 16, 2013 7:51 AM

Insight From Robin Good:

Listal is a free web service and a vibrant community of movies and book lovers, who are provided with the tools to collect, rate and comment their favorite films and readings.

Key features include:

Rate items and add reviews, tags, images, videos &listsCreate as many collections as you likeSearch and find titles by author,Find people who share your tastes on the basis of your ratingsGenerate charts based on the ratings of the people you followOrganise your Movie/TV, Music, Game or Book collectionsCustomize your profileRSS feeds for listsCreate drag and drop reorderable listsAnnotate your lists with notes and imagesImport and export list dataTrack loaned itemsCreate flash widgets for your lists and collectionsPrivate message other Listal membersDiscussion forumsView statistics about your collections

My comment: Excellent free tool to curate your favorite videos, films, books, music or electronic games. Recommended for anyone serious about creating and sharing this type of information.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.listal.com/

juanjovilar's curator insight, June 17, 2013 7:22 AM

Herramienta para generar tus listas de mejores libros, canciones, discos, películas...

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, June 18, 2013 10:43 PM

Excelente aplicación web que nos permitirá curar nuestras películas, programas de TV, libros o videojuegos para poder organizarlos, filtrarlos y compartirlos en nuestras redes sociales favoritas.

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June 15, 2013 11:52 AM

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From theedublogger.com - June 15, 2013 11:52 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Flipboard, as you probably already know, is a great app (available on iOS and Android) which not only allows you to read and keep yourself updated on your favorite topics in a fresh and highly visual experience, but, since recently, it also offers you the ability to become a "curator" of whatever topic you are into.

Your job is simply to pick great stuff you stumble upon and to save it into the appropriate magazine you have created. It's not conceptually much different than clicking a Facebook "like" button and adding your comment, but we the added option of generating in the meanwhile a beautifully laid out digital magazine.

The secret here, to do something that it is of some value, it is to choose on a very specific "theme/topic" and to get picky about what you choose to publish in your magazine(s).

In this useful article Sue Waters collects and curates some of the best tips, video tutorials and techniques to make the best of your Flipboard curation experience in a step-by-step guide.

Useful. Resourceful. Media-rich. 8/10

Full guide: http://theedublogger.com/2013/06/12/flipboard/

Stephen Dale's curator insight, June 16, 2013 5:05 AM

tephen Dale's insight:

Flipboard (an App available for iOS and Android) is my favourite app for consuming and sharing inrormation. Relevence is improved by being able to choose the topics you want to follow, and liking or favouriting specific articles.

The recent addition of the Flipboard Editort now enables you to create and curate your own magazine, which you can share with others, or keep simply as a place for bookmarking.

In this article, Sue Waters provides a step by step guide on how to use and make the most of the Flipboard features.

Nick Mortel's curator insight, June 21, 2013 7:32 AM

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MTD's curator insight, June 24, 2013 4:10 AM

We like Scoopit, but Flipboard is good too. Take a look!

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June 10, 2013 3:30 PM

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From www.etceter.com - June 10, 2013 3:30 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Etceter is a new content curation tool which allows you to create and arrange information pages on any topic, by bringing and organizing together web site links, video clips, images and/or original texts.

Any curated information page, containing as many media elements as you need, is called a Pill. You can group and assign different Pills (which are by themselves collections) to broader categories you define and which are called Boxes.

On Pills pages you have the option to organize contents into one, two or three columns and you can easily re-arrange items by simply dragging and dropping them into new positions.

Etceter Pills and individual media items can be easily shared on social media networks and are directly integrated with Facebook comments under each page.

Etceter also provides intelligible SEO-friendly URLs and personal profile pages, all relevant traits of a good curation tool.

My comment: Though Etceter looks still in early development (FAQ and other pages are still in Spanish + the Clipboard import feature does not work yet - no bookmarklet) the features and curation approach offered is interesting. In particular the nesting of media items into Pills and Boxes is quite valuable and the possibility to arrange individual items in any way desired is very useful. Video collections work particularly well as well as multimedia info pages on specific topics.

Free to use.

More info: http://www.etceter.com/en/

Promo video: http://vimeo.com/64688269

Lydia Gracia's comment, June 11, 2013 4:09 AM

Some months ago they were in beta version. Effectively they're Spanish. I will go into the tool attracted by the Visual personnalization of the content.

Andreas Kuswara's comment, June 11, 2013 7:37 AM

looks promising

Nick Mortel's curator insight, June 21, 2013 7:33 AM

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June 12, 2013 4:21 PM

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From blog.hansdezwart.info - June 12, 2013 1:09 PM

Robin Good's insight:

The ability to discover good and reliable sources and to organize them in ways that make it easy to track and monitor their informationn streams is one of the key skills required for any content curator worth of this title.

Pacific Cove's comment July 31, 2013 3:04 AM

Thank you Steve, You always share very informative articles.

Stephen Dale's comment, July 31, 2013 4:48 AM

Thanks for the kind words :-)

Lucy Wyatt's curator insight, October 10, 2013 9:54 AM

This might be good for students beginning a current research topic.

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June 9, 2013 7:20 AM

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From itunes.apple.com - June 9, 2013 7:20 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Instafeed is a iOS app which allows you to create custom lists of Instagram users and to re-post easily (with auto-credit) great images from other Instagram users to your own account.

Instafeed offers a growing set of pre-packaged feeds, on popular topics like fashion, pets and food, to which you can add your own curated set of custom feeds in which you decide who are your specific Instagram sources.

I would have loved to see a feed creation option based on hashtags rather than just on Instagram people, as it is very rare to find Instagram authors that post sistematically on a specific topic / theme / style.

Usability-wise I wasted a lot of time trying to understand how to watch any existing feed. Beyond that there are only a couple of extra commands only. But for me the need to double tap on the home page feed to view it was a frustrating barrier. I'd click each time only to be brought into seeing the list of sources for that channel. Other than this InstaFeed is as easy as sneezing.

The option to repost (with credit) Instagram pics you find in InstaFeed channels directly to your Instagram account is invaluable as it opens for the first time the opportunity for "curating" other people images on Instagram.

Given the huge quantity of visual material being created daily on Instagram, it is only going to be a matter of time before you will start seeing many other new services attempt to offer tools to more easily find, pick, group and republish relevant Instagram (or for that matter Flickr, Picasa, etc.) images to a theme or topic channel.

Free to use.

App store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instafeed/id632821847?mt=8

More info: http://www.appiphanyinc.com/

Digital Trends: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/instafeed-wants-to-make-you-a-curator-of-instagram-pics/

Tom George's curator insight, June 9, 2013 6:48 PM

Thanks to Robin Good for sharing this

Fabrizio Faraco's curator insight, June 10, 2013 4:02 AM

Robin Good has always something excellent to suggest to those who love curating

Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight, June 10, 2013 4:10 AM

You can repost any snaps you like directly to Instagram, which is a nice touch, and you can post comments too.

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